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Check out this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/

It will allow you to exempt that field from the standard BP search string function. You could also add a little customisation in the settings file to set your Company field to redirect to somewhere else as you’re suggesting here.

Me too!

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I’m trying to get two new sites up and running so would appreciate some help please?

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When you say blog post you mean more than just updating the front page activity stream? (as seen here: http://testbp.org/ )

You mean actually writing a blog post?

There’s 2 ways you might go about doing it.

1. In your blog dashboard go to “Site Admin” >> “Options” and change the “Dashboard User Default Role” to Author. That will now allow every user on your site who signs up without creating a blog of their own to be able to post on your site’s main blog.

They still won’t be able to post on the front without going into the dashboard until you switch your main blog to a theme that supports front-end posting such as P2. To make the P2 theme compatible with BP install the “Buddypress Template Pack” plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

2. Or you could instead go into your Dashboard to “Settings” >> “Reading” and set the “Front Page” to “Activity Stream”. Then install the “Oembed for Buddypress” plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/oembed-for-buddypress/

I believe this is what you are looking for:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sidebar-post/

Brajesh Singh has a plugin for that:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-redirect-to-profile/

You might have to modify it to suit your needs.

There are also these:

BP-Links: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-links/

BP-Gallery (paid plugin): http://buddydev.com

Yes… https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/oembed-for-buddypress/

Enjoy!

@muratk

Have you tried https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/front-end-editor/ ?

@itoube he’s using WordPress not WordPress MU.

question is interesting for me too.

excellent summary, Thomas!

has anyone had any issues with the avatars in the sidebar? Mine are all showing up in a vertical line instead of a block. I’m using the BP Template Pack with BuddyPress 1.2.1. I’m working on a client site that isn’t live yet and I would love to get the bugs worked out before we upload it to a permanent url. http://workingonthisnow.com/MHA

Thanks!!

I will be making a child theme for P2. From there you can set that theme as the default group blog theme, wish will enable frontend posting.

That is not the same as frontend posting on the group home page. You can already use P2 as the group blog theme now.

Also note that in 1.1.3 group blog defaults are overridden by the blog defaults plugin. Haven’t yet tested if that is different in bp-groupblog for 1.2, but for my site I don’t want another category of blogs that looks and behaves different from the other blogs.

For me the groups and blogs serve different purposes; the blogs are for “individual expression”, the groups are for interaction, collaboration, community, etc. I don’t want to mix and confuse those functions.

The group home in my site should become a collaborative space. Front-end posting is a first requirement, so I’ll continue to bang my head against the wall trying to figure that out.

…which you can get from https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-documents/

@designodyssey, it’s pretty much the way you see it in screenshots https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-tags/screenshots/ and when you click on the tag, the page will show groups that are tagged e.g. “plugin”

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I have the same problem audriusme had, except that blogs.php is in the right place.

If I use Firebug to edit the <img/> tags to add “wp-content” to the @src attribute, then everything works just as it should.

I’m running on WPMU 2.9.1.1 and I just upgraded BP from 1.1.something to 1.2.1. In fact, since it wasn’t working, I also deactivated everything again and deleted BuddyPress altogether from the server and then did a manual install, just to be sure it wasn’t a problem with the upgrading process.

I’ve searched both the BuddyPress forums and the WordPress forums for hours and it seems that all the other references to group avatars is “almost” similar to my problem, but not quite the same… until I saw audriusme’s post above about the missing “wp-content” in his <img/> tags. That’s exactly my problem.

Any clues?

You have to create a new WordPress Page called “Blog” and then go into “Settings > Reading” and switch the front page mode to static with the “Blog” page selected as your “Posts page”. I think it will use the index.php template. Do you have a custom homepage?

If you want your users to make posts to the main blog from the “site theme” and not from the “wp-admin” then you’ll need to use a theme that supports front end posting such as the default buddypress theme or P2.

Otherwise posting to a blog from the “site theme” is not an option bundled with BuddyPress.

I think that I may have come up with a solution for my issue with custom signup fields using BuddyPress 1.2.1 on a standalone installation of WordPress 2.9.2. After much digging around I basically ended up with a function that looks a little like the one below in my bp-custom.php file.

function bp_custom_signup_fields( $user_id) {



$bpCustomField = $_POST['bp_custom_field'];



update_usermeta( $user_id, 'bp_custom_field', $bpCustomField );



return $user_id;

}

add_action( 'user_register', 'bp_custom_signup_fields' );

This seems to be working as I want it to, but if anyone is aware of any issues that this may cause, please do let me know.